Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius (19 August 1937 – 25 August 2023) was a German, independent

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

, who taught for a time at the universities of Tübingen,

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...

and Vienna. Hoffmann-Curtius was a member of the and is affiliated with the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. She is a member of the and a member of several commissions for the erection of contemporary monuments. Her focus is on the representation of nations, art in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism, the myth of male and female authorship and the painter Hannah Höch. She was married to the art historian Konrad Hoffmann (1938–2007).

Publications

* Das Programm der

Fontana Maggiore The ''Fontana Maggiore'', a masterpiece of medieval sculpture, placed in the centre of Piazza IV Novembre (formerly Piazza Grande), is the monument symbol of the city of Perugia. History The monumental fountain was designed by Frà Bevignate ...

in Perugia, Diss. 1968 * Feministische Kunstgeschichte heute: Rück- und Vorschläge. In ' 2, 1999, . * ''Feministische Einsprüche in die Disziplin Kunstgeschichte'', kritische berichte, Heft 4, 1993. * Frauen in der deutschen Kunstgeschichte, FKW/Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft, Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, Rundbrief Nr. 11, (April 1991) . * Frauenmord als künstlerisches Thema der Moderne. In Frank J. Robertz, Alexandra Thomas: . Kriminologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Skizzierungen eines ungeheuerlichen Phänomens. Munich, belleville 2002 * Erich Wegner's Mordbilder, in Kat: ''Der stärkste Ausdruck unserer Tage'' New Objectivity in Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Olms Verlag 2001, . * Mord-Kunst oder der Künstler als (Lust-)Mörder. In Michael Glasmeier, Private Eye–Crimes and Cases. Haus am Waldsee Berlin 1999, . * with

Walter Jens Walter Jens (8 March 1923 – 9 June 2013) was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer. He was born in Hamburg, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1941, when he gained his Ab ...

, Eberhard Roters, Reinhart Koselleck,

Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper Gabi or GABI may refer to: People * Gabi (footballer, born 1981) or Gabriel José Pinto Couto, Portuguese footballer * Gabi (footballer, born 1983) or Gabriel Fernández Arenas, Spanish footballer * Gabi Ashkenazi (born 1954), Israeli general and ...

, Sibylle Tönnies: Streit um die

Neue Wache The Neue Wache ( en, New Guard) is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Erected from 1816 to 1818 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guardhouse for the Royal Palace and a memor ...

. Zur Gestaltung einer zentralen Gedenkstätte, 1993 * with Silke Wenk: ''Mythen von Autorschaft und Weiblichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert.'' Marburg Jonas Verlag 1997. * Orientalisierung von Gewalt: Delacroix' ''

Der Tod des Sardanapal Der or DER may refer to: Places * Darkənd, Azerbaijan * Dearborn (Amtrak station) (station code), in Michigan, US * Der (Sumer), an ancient city located in modern-day Iraq * d'Entrecasteaux Ridge, an oceanic ridge in the south-west Pacific Ocean ...

'', in Annegret Friedrich, Birgit Haehnel,

Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff (21 August 1944 – 14 February 2013) was a German art historian and professor with particular research interest in the fields of gender studies and postcolonial studies. Early life and education Viktoria Schmidt-Linsen ...

, Christina Threuter (ed.), Projektionen, Rassismus und Sexismus in der visuellen Kultur, Jonas Verlag 1997, . * Geschlechterspiel im

Dadaism Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris ...

, Kunstforum Vol. 128, 1994 . * with Uwe M. Schneede: Im Blickfeld:

George Grosz George Grosz (; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objec ...

''John, Der Frauenmörder'', Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart 1999. . * ''Bilder zum Judenmord. Eine kommentierte Sichtung der Malerei und Zeichenkunst in Deutschland von 1945 bis zum Frankfurt Auschwitz trials''. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2014. * Michelangelo beim Abwasch, Hannah Höchs Zeitschnitte der Avantgarde, in Die Geschlechterverhältnisse zum Tanzen bringen, Beiträge zum Plenum ''Kunstwissenschaft/Geschlechterverhältnisse. Einsprüche feministischer Wissenschaftlerinnen'', 22. Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag, Aachen 1990,

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat (born 2 August 1946) is an Austrian art historian. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela to a family of wealthy, Jewish textile manufacturers from Brno, who had fled the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during World War I ...

, Doris Noell-Rumpeltes, Alexandra Pätzold (ed.), Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft Rundbrief 12 July 1991, . * ''Wenn Blicke töten könnten: Der Künstler als Lustmörder'',''Wenn Blicke töten könnten" oder: Der Künstler als Lustmörder''
on WorldCat in Ines Lindner,

Sigrid Schade Sigrid is a Scandinavian given name for women from Old Norse ''Sigríðr'', composed of the elements ''sigr'' "victory" and ''fríðr'' "beautiful". Common short forms include Siri, Sigga, Sig, and Sigi. An Estonian and Finnish variant is Si ...

, Silke Wenk,

Gabriele Werner Gabriele is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name Surname *Al Gabriele, American comic book artist *Angel Gabriele (1956–2016), American comic book artist * Corrado Gabriele (born 1966), Italian polit ...

(edit.): Blickwechsel, Konstruktionen von Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit in Kunst und Kunstgeschichte, Berlin: Reimer 1989, . * Frauenbilder Oskar Kokoschka's, in Frauen/Bilder, Männer/Mythen, publisher. Ilsebill Barta among others, Berlin: Reimer 1987, . * Terror in Deutschland 1918/19. Bilder zur Ermordung

Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, ...

s. In Linda Hentschel ed. .H: Bilderpolitik in Zeiten von Krieg und Terror: Medien Macht und Geschlechterverhältnisse; Berlin: b-books 2008, . * Frauenmord als Spektakel: Max Beckmann's ''Martyrium'' der Rosa Luxemburg. In SusanneKomfort-Hein/

Susanne Scholz Susanne may refer to: *Susanne (given name), a feminine given name (including a list of people with the name) *, later USS ''SP-411'', a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 *, the proposed name and designation for a vess ...

, Lustmord-Medialisierung eines kulturellen Phantasmas Königstein i. T.: Ulrike Helmer, 2007, . * Der irrende Ritter. Künstler-, Kampf- und Kriegerromantik zum Ersten Weltkrieg. In ''Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft'', fascicule 41, June 2006, .

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmann-Curtius, Kathrin German art historians German women art historians German gender studies academics 1937 births 2023 deaths